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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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